ClutchFans Game Thread: Thunder @ Rockets 12/25/2018

"Efficiency & James Harden don't go together." - Shannon

"I still like OKC better long term than I do Houston." - Skip

 

Im totally agreeing with u. Hench the reason clark only gets spot minutes. From time to time.

 

Embarassing analyst, and he gets paid for his takes...i just can't...

 

translation?

 

The arteries relax and open up to let more blood to flowin; at the same time, the veins close up. Once blood is in the penis, pressure traps it within the corpora cavernosa. Your penis expands and holds the erection. When the inflow of blood stops and the veins open, your penis becomes soft.

 

Clark's main mission was to get Melo off the team!!

 

Shannon Sharpe is an Ex football player so I won't take him seriously. He is also a die hard Lebron homer.

 

They should pay him to talk about football then, cause his opinions on something he cleary doesn't know/understand are worthless.

 

The Rockets are only 4 games out in the playoff standings; definitely within striking distance. Got to keep rolling. Need one more player move and a healthy CP3. Probably only one of those things will happen.

 

Skip is a moron. He is biased. He called the Thunders to meet the Warriors in the WCF last year.

Anybody who watched basketball a few years ago knows Harden's efficiency was through the roof. He doesn't have the luxury to be efficient and play like PG at this point. He has to be the Dad and Mom of this team right now. Geesh.

 

Harden, MDA, the coaches etc do this for a living if it was that easy don't you think they would have done it? I mean Melo, Rudy Gay and Westbrick have only been trying to shoot mid range shots their entire career, bit they just can't seem to understand that you take the floater and then sprinkle it between the lobs. If only Melo and Gay did that they would have averaged 12 assists a game.


You should be in the NBA dude, you can totally do the floater and sprinkle it in between the lobs and score 200 pts a game.

 

Harden, MDA, the coaches etc do this for a living if it was that easy don't you think they would have done it? I mean Melo, Rudy Gay and Westbrick have only been trying to shoot mid range shots their entire career, bit they just can't seem to understand that you take the floater and then sprinkle it between the lobs. If only Melo and Gay did that they would have averaged 12 assists a game.


You should be in the NBA dude, you can totally do the floater and sprinkle it in between the lobs and score 200 pts a game.

P.S. On a more serious note efficiency may get thrown around a lot but it also a fact players who take a lot of mid range are extremely inefficient. Even James Harden only shoots 42% on mid range, that is even worse than 30% from 3. If Harden was as unstoppable from mid range as you think then his % would be higher, clearly this only your oerception vs reality.

 

Versus not at all, I'll take it. Last year it was practically taboo, we were looking at CP3 like he was from Mars until we all just accepted it as his "layup."

 

Amazing win and wonderful Christmas gift.

Harden is a BOSS again. SMH at national media talking about poor efficiency. They didn't call fouls so his FGAs go up. They complain. If he GOT the FTS and the FGAs were down...they would STILL complain. They complain either way. Unseemly.

Gordon was huge in the 4th quarter with energy and rives.

Rivers DEFENSE at the PG spot was HUGE. And will be huge moving forward. My guess is we eventually see him get Gerald Green's minutes at backup SF when CP comes back. House still looks good. Athletic and disruptive.

HUGE KUDOS TO CAPELA! Rebounding was the #1 thing to concentrate on and he brought his A+ game. Hat tip to you sir.

The Rockets played this game with the URGENCY we last saw in the playoffs GSW series. It was wonderful to see. Getting all those 50/50 balls. SOOOOOOOOO much better URGENCY.

 

Since our hideous 1-5 start, we are 17-11, with two of those losses coming in OT on the road. We could easily have been 19-9 over that same stretch.

Post-Melo, we are 14-9 and wins in those OT games could have made us 16-7. And it took us a while to find our footing after we benched Melo.

 

And no consideration for Harden doing that to the best defense in the league.

• Harden's Points per Shot v OKC = 1.21 (not counting his 50'er hail mary to end the 3rd)
• OKC's Points per Shot = 1.12
• Celtics PPS on XMas = 1.12

If you are taking 34 shots as only star on the court, then as long as your efficiency is better than the opposing team, why not. Even against the Spurs the game before, Harden was 1.147 v the Spurs 1.147

Obviously, the media is nitpicking and crafting a narrative that without Paul or foul shots, Harden becomes less efficient, like Westbrook.

 

Right now Harden has to go HAM for the Rockets to have any chance to win on a nightly basis. He knows this. You can see it in his interviews.

 

Rockets also just recorded the 5th best Team ORtg for any OKC opponent in a game this year.

That is to say, Rockets scored 5th most points against OKC this year, when normalized to Pace.

 

It's just fashionable to hate on Harden. Oh no, he only shot 43% scoring 41 points on 35 shots in a win. So pathetic!

Meanwhile, Westbrook and George shot 30% (6-20, 21 points) and 40% (10-25, 28 points) respectively in a loss and no one says jack crap.

 

Dumb cunt. 32 ppg on 21 shots not efficient for ya? 38% from three on 12 attempts not good enough? Fire this incompetent imbecile. He's exactly as smart as he looks.